Kåre Ingemar Karlsson is a former Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ski jumper.

He was born in Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk is a village in the municipality of Meldal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located south of Svorkmo , east of Bjørnli, and north of the municipal center of Meldal....

 in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Evert Karlsson

Evert Karlsson

Evert Gotthardt Karlsson was a Swedish ski jumper.He was born in Løkken Verk in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Kåre Karlsson. They represented the sports club Løkken IF...

. They represented the sports club Løkken IF

Løkken IF

Løkken Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Løkken Verk, Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, speed skating and Nordic skiing....

. Kåre Karlsson moved to Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik is a locality and the seat of Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 28,617 inhabitants in 2005.Its natural harbour and archipelago is in the Gulf of Bothnia and the northern boundaries of the High Coast area. It is well known as an exporter of paper products...

 in his father's home country Sweden in 1944, and joined the club IF Friska Viljor

IF Friska Viljor

Idrettsföreningen Friska Viljor is a Swedish ski jumping and Nordic combined club from Örnsköldsvik, Västernorrland County.It formerly offered more sports. A football club named Friska Viljor FC was separated from IF Friska Viljor in February 1994...

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He finished 21st at the 1950 World Ski Championships

1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 took place during February 1–6, 1950 in Lake Placid, New York, USA and Rumford, Maine, USA. This was Lake Placid's second time hosting the championships after having done so at the 1932 Winter Olympics. It also marked the first time after World War II the...

. Three other Løkken IF members (current or former) participated here; Evert Karlsson, Arthur E. Tokle

Arthur E. Tokle

Arthur Emil Tokle was a Norwegian-born American ski jumper who competed for the United States at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, finishing 18th in the individual large hill event.-Biography:...

 and Vidar Lindboe-Hansen

Vidar Lindboe-Hansen

Vidar Lindboe-Hansen was a Norwegian ski jumper and mining engineer.He was born in Kongsberg, and studied at the Norwegian Institute of Technology before settling in Løkken Verk as a mining engineer. Here he joined the local sports club Løkken IF.He finished tenth at the 1950 World Ski Championships...

. At the Swedish Championships, Kåre Karlsson finished sixth in 1945, ninth in 1946, seventh in 1948, second in 1949 and eighth in 1953.